Briefing: Why Christians are declining in Mideast - CSMonitor.com
Estimates of its Christian population at the time of the US-led invasion in 2003 ranged from 800,000 to 1.4 million – roughly 5 percent of the population. But targeted by killings, kidnappings, and threats, many fled – in far higher proportions than their Sunni and Shiite compatriots: an estimated 20 percent of Iraqi refugees abroad are Christians. Only an estimated 500,000 to 600,000 remain.
Al Qaeda ally in Iraq says all Christians 'legitimate targets' - CSMonitor.com
“All Christian centers, organizations and institutions, leaders and followers, are legitimate targets for the mujahideen [holy warriors]," the Islamic State of Iraq said in a statement posted online late Tuesday.
Iraq's Christian community is one of the world's oldest. But since the 2003 invasion, church bombings, kidnappings, and assassinations have scattered the community. Last year, Human Rights Watch estimated
that two-thirds of Iraqi Christians have fled their homes since the war began.
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Not to mention the unknown number of forced marriages and murders. Iraqi Christians have even been crucified.
And yet, according to you, I'm the "idiot". Even with all the evidence, you refuse to see the truth. Seems more right wingers are like that than not.